Kratos is back, and more pissed than ever before! Or, not really, it just so happens that this time around we get contrast with actual human emotions such as regret and guilt.

The SuperBowl isn’t just about football anymore, and even gamers got a treat in the form of a God of War trailer entirely done in Live-Action to preview the upcoming title in the series, called God of War: Ascension. Sony had aired a teaser before, but now we actually get to see the whole thing, and our questions were answered: yes, it was God of War related, no, we don’t have any PS4 news at the moment, and yes, we’re excited as hell because this looks incredible.

Sony has silently uploaded a new video to their youtube channel simply called “Game Day 2013 Teaser”. What is this all about?

Warning! Speculation up ahead: Sony uploaded a short clip (just a mere 16 seconds ad) showing a woman in a white dress, walking on a hill. Her clothes, and something that looks like ash (as well as the camera quickly cutting to a close-up of an eye) makes us think this could be related to Kratos, the God of War, the Ghost of Sparta. The date “February 1, 2013” appears at the end. so hey, we’re almost there. The video itself is titled Game Day 2013 Teaser.

It could very likely be a God of War ad, being that the most recent title in the series, God of War: Ascension, is about to come out next March on PlayStation 3. Still, could it be anything else? Some people hinted there might be an entirely unrelated and yet-unannounced God of War game (maybe for the Vita!), while other camp says this could be related to the eventual arrival of the PlayStation 4 / Playstation Orbis. We can see that, you know? “From the ashes of the PS3, blah blah blah”. What do you think this is all about?

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http://ps3maven.com/inversion-gameplay-trailer/#commentsFri, 04 Nov 2011 12:20:52 +0000http://ps3maven.com/?p=9884‘Inversion’ Gameplay Trailer Turns Your World Upside Down And Then Some

For better or worse (knowing the Internet it’s often the latter), Inversion has every typical trapping that usually most shooters made in the west surround themselves in: cover mechanics, over-the-shoulder firing, and a male hero with a five-o-clock shadow *cough* Uncharted 3*cough*. Yet when in it comes to it’s bread and butter, mechanically speaking, that’s where this game shows something mighty wild.

That’s because Inversion shifts it’s gritty-gunplay, and boy does it get gritty, to some pretty wacked-out dimensional planes as you will soon see. From across high-rise building walls and the roofs of spooky damp caves, every surface becomes an instant battlefield that our hero — ordinary city cop Davis Russel — comes across using his “not-ordinary” set of gravity-altering powers, which can be also smartly used to launch enemies in the air and be taken out. Think of it as those mind-bending scenes from the movie Inception by Director Christopher Nolan turned full-retailed video game, and there you have this title.

Seeing as it comes from Saber Interactive, the same plucky development team that brought audiences 2007’s TimeShift, a tactile first-person shooter with an almost similar combat-effecting premise (TimeShift used time control instead), Inversion just might be in the right hands to pull of such a literal upside concept and importantly have a promising chance to not end up in the bargain bin after it’s February 7, 2012 release in North America. With that said, here’s a sneak preview of Inversion’s ground-to-wall-to-ceiling action with this new gameplay trailer from Namco Bandai.

What do you think? Yea? Or… Maybe when it’s cheap on Black Friday? Oh which reminds me, there will be plenty of PlayStation 3 related goods, say like a PS3 bundle, readily available during said shopping period where the discounts and deals will be flying out faster than a eagle shot out of a cannon (please don’t do that though. I mean, yes do the Black Friday shopping thing, but no to the shoot an eagle out of a cannon thing. Okay? Good.)

Sony’s latest PlayStation 3 ad gives a appreciative shout-out to the gamers that play their games from the heroes/heroines themselves.

Videogames normally place users in the roles of heroes (or heroines what have you) crusading against insurmountable odds, saving the kingdom from a terrible oppressor or fighting to get what was once theirs. But really, when you think about it, aren’t the users the true heroes?

Without the player picking up the controller and putting the many time-burning hours into those games there would be no good guys winning the battle, no princess to be saved, and certainly no happy ending. I doubt I’m the only one who thinks this, in fact and as the reason for this post, Sony has picked up on this idea in an awesome video ad.

Appearing in one brilliant video to say thanks to you, the player, are the all-stars from some of your favorite titles on the PlayStation 3, with cameos by Uncharted 3’s Nathan Drake and God of War’s Kratos, just name an awesome few. As Sony commercials go, and they’ve been quite flippin’ sweet I have to say, this one has to be their best, check it out!

Don’t for get to alsocheck the latest update to the PlayStation Store, in this week’s PlayStation Network Releases for the first week in October.

Prepare yourself for around 40 minutes of unfiltered video from Silent Hill: Downpour.

I hope with all the gushing you’ve been doing over the upcoming Silent Hill Collection that you didn’t forget about the other new entry into the famed Konami survival-horror series shipping quite soon – not that I should blame you, Silent Hills 2 & 3 bundled together and remastered in high definition sounds down-right distracting.

Ah, but so will be Silent Hill: Downpour when it falls on North America retail shelves this November 4th. The Czech Republic’s own Vatra Games is taking the helm of this eighth, yes, eighth iteration of the chilling franchise, which is carving out it’s own story separated from plot-lines from previous entries and tells the tale of a new victim… I mean protagonist, escaped convict Murphy Pendleton.

Right after his prison bus suddenly crashes, Murphy, who’s past will unfold as Downpour does, finds himself on the outskirts of the ghostly town of Silent Hill. If Mr. Pendleton thought prison life was hard before, he’s now just entered an even hellish one of the most twisted, disturbing kind. That’s the premise of course — but what about the gameplay?

The last Silent Hill game on an HD console, didn’t exactly win over the warm graces of gamers and veterans of the series. Good thing then that it seems that Vatra Games is taking those complaints to great heart, with many conversations with the development team quite upfront about not only improving the core gameplay, but also borrowing influences from Silent Hill 1 and 2.

It’s getting back to what those first games did so right: mainly, discovering your surroundings and being able to think on your toes about how to escape your monstrous pursuers, without the use of guns to boot. And from the footage you’re about to see below from the website Rely On Horror, Silent Hill: Downpour is shaping up to pull this off. Fingers crossed and all that.

Of course this 40 minute preview is a bit “spoilerish.” So if you don’t want your spooky bubble to be burst upon, then I suggest instead that you should read about how the Uncharted series was originally intended to be a fantasy based adventure. Crazy story that. For the rest of you who just don’t give a dang like a boss, enjoy:

Ubisoft has released an extended cut trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Meaning more Ezio, which is always more better in my book. Check it out!

O Ezio, Ezio, wherefore art thou Ezio? Continuing the next chapter in the Assassin’s Creed story line after the events in Brotherhood, I see. Yet this time around you’ll be joined by fellow protagonists Altaïr ibn La-Ahad and Desmond Miles, in the present day of course, as you embark into the Ottoman Empire in 1511 AD.

A final journey this may be for you, sweet Ezio & Altair — but fear not good sirs! Centered upon Ubisoft’s brilliantly crafted open-world gameplay, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will, if all things turn out as they should, be an experience fitting to end on. Yet, let not my words be taken as godly truth, feast upon this trailer, an extended cut of the Revelations’ trailer that debuted at E3 2011:

Splendid, don’t ye think? And the public surely won’t have to wait long to play Assassin’s Creed: Revelations — what with a November 15th release date quickly approaching. What a glorious month indeed, as other big gaming hits shall be releasing that same time period too. Perhaps you’ve heard of them, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Here’s the first official trailer for Rockstar Games’ Max Payne 3, but in an informative annotated twist!

Rockstar Games is bringing back the Payne (lol) — Max Payne that is, with the much-waited release of the third installment of the gritty bullet-time leaning third-person shooter, May Payne 3, coming March 2012. I say much-waited, because it’s been a long eight years since the last Max Payne title, with only a crushingly horribly film adaptation, starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, to keep fan’s of the series company.

Ugh, some company, indeed. Let’s just say, it’s good to finally see videogame Max Payne again back to what he does best, taking out street crime Death Wish-style. And better than just a plain old trailer teasing us what’s spanking new with Max Payne 3, Rockstar has presented a more informative video montage that highlights many of the things you’ll see… right about now.

So what did we learn boys and girls? Well, for one thing we ain’t in New York City no more; the setting to Max Payne 3 now taking place in São Paulo, Brazil. But just because the venue has changed doesn’t mean things have gone better for Max, who’s troubling past has now lead him far way from his native homeland and working in the private security sector for a wealthy local family that has their hand in some very shady investments.

More info about Max Payne 3 will be more flourishing in the coming months, so don’t wander to long away from Ps3Maven. And please do check out other fresh news items, like the Japanese release for the PlayStation Vita, or speaking of other trailers, there’s a new one for Silent Hill: Downpour with music by the band, Korn.

Sega’s upcoming squad-based third-person shooter might have a silly name, but its gameplay is serious. Seriously good looking.

When I first heard of this game’s title, it didn’t instill the greatest confidence of something that I would have much interest in playing. Seriously, Binary Domain? Really? Sounds like a course in college that I probably would of avoided like the plague, honestly.

Thankfully, that’s what’s gameplay trailers are for. Because once I saw the Tokyo Game Show footage of the Sega published game, I instantly needed to know more about it, and even more importantly, a cool way of describing it to you, the audience. Hmm… the best I came up with was a Terminator movie (not that horrible fourth one) meeting a cover-based third-person shooter designed by the awesome internal Sega team who created the Yakuza series.

I don’t know about you, but the thought of such a scenario makes me “get excite” times one million, plus two for good measure.

Just in case you couldn’t catch what was being said through out that video, a couple of interesting Binary Domain features were being advertised, the first being the Consequence System. Actions taken through out the game — the way you complete missions, the way you interact with individual members of your task force, issuing commands using buttons or voice via headset — all shapes trust amongst your squad-mates.

This then effects the actions they take on the battlefield in regards to you. For example, if you become a good squad-leader, the chances are your squad will actively follow and better help you in tough situations, like taking out a sniper or offering cover fire.

Sounds quite amazing. And hopefully the the Yakuza team will be able to pull this off by the time Binary Domain makes it’s February 7th, 2012 release date (a long wait indeed,) because it has the makings of a sleeper hit. Which is a term you definitely can’t use on a game like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, coming soon to gaming consoles this November.

The voice of Drake becomes pitch-man for the Collector’s Edition of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception in this funny video from the PlayStation Blog.

Nolan North is a drat voicing god. The actor has had speaking roles in possibly every videogame and cartoon production that you could name. And I’m not kidding about that folks — really, I mean it! Go look him up on Google — go on. I’ll wait here for you while you do…

See?! The man is in everything!

Of course, fans of Naughty Dog’s popular Uncharted series know Mr. North best as the voice of Nathan Drake. And today in the PlayStation Blog video below, he’s using his deep pockets of charm (and boy is he charming, sigh…) to promote the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Collector’s Edition, which you can pre-order right now!

For those unaware, the Collector’s Edition comes dressed in a “Travelling Chest” themed package and includes: a wearable replica Nathan Drake belt buckle, a wearable replica Nathan Drake ring with necklace strap, an exclusive Collector’s Edition Steelbook game case, and the pièce de résistance, an exclusive Nathan Drake statue by Sideshow Collectibles.

And with that, take it away Mr. North…

Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception won’t be in stores until November 1st in North America — so I hope you save all your pennies for that. Although that’s going to be a pretty hard thing to do, what with the awesome fall line-up games — Resistance 3, Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, and so much more!

In space, no one can hear you scream. And with the upcoming multiplatform Aliens: Colonial Marines, the Plano, Texas based developer Gearbox Software, famed for their Brothers in Arms and Borderlands creations, hopes to continue that extra-terrestrial fright-night legacy in a first-person shooter based on the popular Aliens’ film universe.

Aliens: Colonial Marines is still half a year away or so from meeting its Spring 2012 deadline, but Gearbox Software has been ever so kindly recently with sneak previews from the game. Which, takes place after the events of Aliens 3, where a Colonial Marine search & rescue team has been sent to investigate the U.S.S. Sulaco in search of Ellen Ripley (a.k.a. the greatest sci-fi heroine hands down.)

More of a good part of Colonial Marines gameplay will be squad-based – a certain aspect that sounds made in heaven (or hell?) for a series of movies that usually involves using military-trained personal to cover ground, inspect foreign areas, and take out whatever fierce nasty Facehugger or Queen Alien stands in their way. You’ll even at times play a tower-defense role, protecting a specific location by using tactical positioning and turrets.

There will certainly be multiplayer (how could you doubt it) in Colonial Marines, including two-player cooperatively play with an option for split screen, but as for deeper details, Gearbox is still holding their cards to their chests tight. But again, that sneak preview I was talking about a minute ago is drat good enough to hold gamers over till more insights become available.

Even if it wasn’t actually released by Gearbox themselves, but was leaked instead on YouTube. Hey, I ain’t complaining!